Abstract
This study aimed to determine the determinants of self-esteem and academic performance of senior high school students in Cluster BCAMT. A total of 568 or 40% Senior High School Grade 11 students of Morong National High School, Cardona Senior High School and Baras Senior High School were considered in the study. A researcher- made questionnaire checklist was utilized to determine the self-esteem of the respondents. The study revealed that the self-esteem has much effect on the personal ability, family, social interaction and emotional stability and among them, family is the most perceived. Age, mother’s educational attainment and mother’s occupation are not significant on the extent of self-esteem. Moreover, it is not significant regarding to their sex under family, personal ability and family under monthly family income, social interaction and emotional stability under father’s occupation and personal ability, social interaction and emotional stability under type of family. On the other hand, it is significant regarding their sibling position and father’s educational attainment, personal ability under sex and father’s occupation, family under father’s occupation and type of family, social interaction and emotional stability under sex and monthly family income. The respondents’ academic performance, the general performance of the pupils is 86.75 which explains that it is Very Satisfactory. There is no significant relationship between the extent of self-esteem of the on the level of academic performance of the respondents, with respect to personal ability, family, social interaction and emotional stability. Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that regardless of age, education; level obtained and occupation of their mothers, the respondents are able to be moderately calm when confronted with a problem, and relies on self-coping abilities to solve it and students’ academic performance does not rely with their self-esteem manifestations in coping day-to-day experiences.
